Features and Essays

tiktok
TikTok Is Bringing Down Obstacles to Music Promotion; But It Is Also Creating New Ones

TikTok needs more influencers who are prominent, can shift trends, and lower the paywall for…

Nigerian parents, headphones
Why Nigerian Parents Hate Headphones

Nigerian parents loathe that individualism, disliking even more the privacy that comes with it. Really,…

Domestic Cooking
Are African Wives Doing Away with the Sacrocancy in Domestic Cooking?

Domestic Cooking as an activity is undervalued because it is not considered real work, even…

Jeriq
From Hood Boy to Billionaire Dreams, What Does Jeriq’s Rise Represent for the Nigerian Trap Culture?

Jeriq has come to represent, for the streets of Iyoo, what Nas represented in the…

domestic violence
Female-Engineered Domestic Violence is as Wrong As its Gender Flipside

People are unlikely to think about the possibilities of a man being a victim of…

umuada
The “Umuada” is Striking Newer Chords in Cultural Dynamism and Feminism in Igboland

As a result of globalisation, the Umuada has broken into units and expanded all across…

LGBTQ+
10 Activists in Africa and the Diaspora Changing the LGBTQ+ Narrative

By Sybil Fekurumoh At present, there are only about 29 countries that recognise same-sex marriages…

Ifé
Ifé: A Singer, Philosopher, and Storyteller of Ancient Breed

Ifé infuses ancient Igbo philosophy and folklores, complete with their aesthetics, into her music. When…

stretch marks
Should African Women Still be Ashamed of Their Stretch Marks?

In 2018, the Ghanaian Immigration Service banned recruits who had stretch marks from participating in…

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Largely Under-researched, African Women Are Now Raising Veils

…another reason cases like Polycystic Ovary Syndrome  are largely undiagnosed until later is because women…